Klaus Schultz

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Klaus Schultz (2006)

Klaus Schultz (born May 20, 1947 in Bad Kissingen ; † April 26, 2014 in Munich ) was a German dramaturge and artistic director .

biography

After training as a qualified librarian at scientific libraries, a corresponding activity ( Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München) and parallel (but not leading to a degree) studies at the University of Erlangen and the University of Munich , from 1972 Schultz initially worked as a freelancer for various opera productions in Munich, Dramaturgically active in Frankfurt am Main and Augsburg. From 1973/74 to 1977 he was dramaturge at the Frankfurt Opera (Opera Director Christoph von Dohnányi ). From 1977 to 1982 he worked as chief dramaturge and press spokesman for the Bavarian State Opera and took part in the matinée around the opera, to which the then director August Everding had invited him. The conception of this matinée was developed with him by Klaus Schultz, who also repeatedly engaged the main actor Heinz Rühmann to readings in the theaters in Aachen and Mannheim, which he directed. At the same time he worked from 1980 to 1984 as a music dramaturge for the Berlin Philharmonic . From 1984 to 1992 he was general director of the theaters of the city of Aachen and in the same function from 1992 to 1996 the National Theater Mannheim . From September 1996 until the end of the 2006/07 season he was director and chief dramaturge at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich .

With his ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, he formed a repertoire of opera, ballet, concerts, musicals and operettas with works from four centuries of musical theater, as before in Aachen and Mannheim. A special emphasis was placed on the music of the 20th century since 1950. B. the performances of Aribert Reimann's Melusine , Igor Stravinsky's Rake’s Progress , Werner Egks Revisor , Hans Werner Henze's English Cat , his elegy for young lovers or the world premieres of Wilfried Hiller's Forest Children (1998), Vladimir Tarnopolski's When Time Overflows ( 1999), Arvet Terterians Das Beben (2003), Johannes Maria Stauds Berenice (2004) and the Munich premieres of Dieter Schnebel's Majakowski's Death (2005) and Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 (2007).

The BallettTheater München , directed by Philip Taylor, formed a special line and developed an idiosyncratic repertoire in the Gärtnerplatztheater and at national and international guest performances during the 11 years of Schultz's directorship.

In 1999, after August Everding's death, Schultz was Executive President and from September 1999 to summer 2007 Vice President of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in the Prinzregententheater . Asked by Wolfgang Wagner and the Board of Trustees of the Festival, he volunteered to run the Bayreuth Festival from 2002 to 2008 as a freelancer .

Schultz was editor and author of articles and books in the context of his professional activities. Since 1974 he has given lectures on music and theater and has taught at colleges and universities in Frankfurt, Munich and Heidelberg. In 2000 he was appointed professor at the University of Bremen . Since 2006/07 he has also taught at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding in conjunction with the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In autumn 2009 he was visiting professor at the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA).

Occasionally, Schultz also took on acting roles. In 1988 he played the role of Mr. Weber in Loriot's comedy Oedipussi , which Loriot had created for Schultz. Already in 1980 there was a collaboration with Loriot for the anniversary of the Wittelsbach house, and again in 1982 for the 100th birthday of the Berlin Philharmonic. Since 2001, Schultz has also spoken as a reciter of Loriot's texts on the Ring on 1 Abend , for which he had engaged Loriot as author and narrator in Mannheim, as well as the connecting texts on Leonard Bernstein's Candide , which Loriot wrote for the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich and has performed many times since 1999 and which were published in 2010 as DVD in the cassette "Loriot und die Musik".

Together with the baritone Michael Volle , the actor Hartmut Volle and the pianist Sophie Raynaud, he performed a Brahms-Mahler song program as a reciter in various concerts in 2012. In March 2014, he recited prose by Karl Kraus and scenes from his drama The Last Days of Mankind in the Munich Jewish Community Center .

The television works that Schultz conceived and in which he participated as a conversation partner include films about the pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (WDR, 1989, together with Jürgen Wilke), about the singer Hans Hotter (BR, 1999) and “Bayreuth Primadonnen” (BR , 1997), a discussion with the singers Martha Mödl , Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson . For television broadcasts of opera performances, he worked as a dramaturge for live broadcasts of the Rosenkavalier under the direction of Carlos Kleiber (June 1979) and of Die Entführung aus dem Serail under Karl Böhm (April 1980) from the Bavarian State Opera and led in the broadcasts the concert performances of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde under the direction of Leonard Bernstein (1981).

Schultz was a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts and the Free Academy of Arts Rhein-Neckar. In 2004 Schultz became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was a member of several boards of trustees, such as those of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation from 2001 to 2012 and the Eugen Biser Foundation in Munich. From 2008 he was a member of the board of directors and the board of trustees of the Stiftung Kulturförderung and from 2011 he worked in the Eugen Jochum Stiftung. In 2011 he was a member of the Friends of the Chair for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. In October 2012, Schultz was elected first chairman of this circle of friends, which supports scholarships, research projects and visiting professorships as well as organizes lecture evenings.

From 2010 to 2013, Schultz, invited by the editor Rachel Salamander , wrote occasionally for the literary world , the literary journal of the newspaper Die Welt .

Gravestone in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

From January to July 2011, as part of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Gasteig, he conducted with eyes: Music a series of evenings that were held in the Carl Orff Hall of the Philharmonie and film portraits, conversations with the portrayed musicians and live music connected with each other.

After his health had been compromised for a long time, Klaus Schultz died on April 26, 2014 at the age of almost 67 in Munich from an unexpected illness. The funeral service took place on May 21, 2014 in Munich's Cuvilliés Theater . The burial took place in the immediate family circle. The grave of Klaus Schultz is on the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: I-Erb.-15 / 15A / 15B).

Honors

Publications

  • Preliminary bibliography of the writings of Theodor W. Adorno . In: Th. W. Adorno for memory . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1971.
  • Together with Peter Mussbach's program for Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" on the occasion of the Olympics in Munich, Münzhof der Residenz, September 1972; Music. Direction: Eberhard Schöner, production: J.-P. Ponnelle; with the first extensive bibliography of writings on G. Puccini
  • Together with Peter Mussbach : Maze Parsifal . For the new production of Wagner's Parsifal at the Frankfurter Oper, Frankfurt a. M. 1973.
  • Editing and graphic design of the programs of the Frankfurt Opera from 1973/74 - 1976/77, the Bavarian State Opera Munich from 1977/78 - 1981/82 and the publications of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1980 / 81–1983 / 84.
  • Editor of the program publications of the theaters in Aachen from 1984 to 1992, Mannheim from 1992 to 1996 and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich from 1996 to 2007
  • Mahler views. To the symposium on Gustav Mahler (head: Dieter Schnebel ). Kulturforum Bonn 1975.
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Catalog for the exhibition at the Frankfurt Opera, December 1975.
  • Hans Werner Henze . To an exhibition. Kulturforum Bonn 1976.
  • Baden Baden Music Days 1927–1929 . Published by Südwestfunk and the Baden-Baden Theater, 1977.
  • Together with Peter Mario Katona: The Frankfurter Oper 1968 / 69–1976 / 77. Frankfurt a. M. 1977.
  • Editing and graphic design of the yearbooks of the Bavarian State Opera I – V (Munich 1978–1982).
  • Karl Böhm at the Bavarian State Opera . Munich 1978; extended edition 1981.
  • Ed .: Lorenzo da Ponte, The Marriage of Figaro. Opera by WA Mozart, first edition of the translation by Karl Wolfskehl, Marbacher Schriften Vol. 15, Marbach 1978.
  • 'Yehudi Menuhin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra'. Berlin 1979.
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Catalog for the exhibition at the Wiener Festwochen 1981.
  • Munich theater bill 1807–1982 . A selection by Klaus Schultz. KG Saur, Munich 1982 ISBN 3-598-10462-6 .
  • The Bavarian State Opera 1977–1982 . A review. Munich 1982.
  • Philharmonic Almanac I . Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1982.
  • Together with Peter Girth and Uwe Schendel: The Berlin Philharmonic . Berlin 1982.
  • Together with Peter Girth and Uwe Schendel: Philharmonic Museum. Programs with recordings from 1913 to 1982 . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin 1982.
  • Together with Peter Girth: Philharmonic Almanach II . Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 1983.
  • Co-editor of the Musikalische Schriften V and VI by Theodor W. Adorno (Vol. 18 and 19 of his Gesammelte Schriften, edited together with Rolf Tiedemann , Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1984)
  • Ed .: Aribert Reimanns LEAR - Path of a New Opera . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-423-10152-0 .
  • Four years that count twice . In: Liselotte Homering, Karin von Welck (eds.): Mannheim and his national theater. People - history (s) - perspectives . Palatium-Verlag, Mannheim 1998, ISBN 3-920671-27-9 , pp. 230-239 (revised version of his address for adoption in Mannheim on July 21, 1996)
  • Retrospectives . State Theater on Gärtnerplatz 1996–2007. Munich 2007.
  • Be open to - hear . The conductor Christoph von Dohnányi . Murmann-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86774-074-6 .

literature

  • Dieter Borchmeyer : Eleven years of eleven years. Swan song for a Munich opera era . In: Retrospectives 1996–2007 , Munich 2007
  • Wolf-Dieter Peter: In all winds . Interview with Klaus Schultz. In: Die deutsche Bühne 78 (2007), No. 8, p. 55. - ISSN  0011-975X
  • Dietmar N. Schmidt: Review of the artistic director Klaus Schultz in Munich . In: Opernwelt , August 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Braunmüller: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz: The former director Klaus Schultz is dead. Abendzeitung, April 27, 2014, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Former Frankfurt opera dramaturge has died , Jens Malte Fischer: On the death of the theater maker Klaus Schultz. Silent triumphs of diversity . Both in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 27, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Obituary notice of the family in Münchner Merkur from May 3, 2014. Accessed on November 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bearer of the Bavarian Maximilian Order 2010. Bavarian State Government, October 20, 2010 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2014
Place of death Munich